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Runaway Horse on Main Street
Charles Ives (ed. James B Sinclair)
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General Info
Year: 1908
Duration: c. 1:00
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Associated Music Publishers
Cost: Rental
Instrumentation
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Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Contemporaneous with Country Band March, this is one of Ives's workings out of newly discovered rhythmic and pitch patterns -- and here again, a take-off on the ragtime that Ives as a young man heard all around him in New Work. It all starts calmly enough as the buggy driver stops to let off a friend and then tries vainly to control his horse's unruly startup. One can imagine a row of beer-hall doors opening and letting loose the jarring ragtime of a dozen pianists, while the wobbly patrons collect on the sidewalk and try to curb the runaway horse (and its buggy). The middle part is from Ives's surviving pages of band score; the "drawled" solo trumpet opening ("So long, Harris...") is adapted from Ives's derivative song, and the editor's coda patch is from Charlie Rutlage.
Reconstructed and edited by James B. Sinclair from Ives's incomplete score for band, S55.
- Program Note by Jonathan Elkus
Media
- Audio: "The President's Own" United States Marine Band ( Timothy W. Foley, conductor)
- Audio CD: "The President's Own" United States Marine Band (Timothy W. Foley, conductor)
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Performances
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Works for Winds by This Composer
- The Alcotts (tr. Elkus) (1920/1947)
- The Alcotts (tr. Thurston) (1920/1972)
- Charlie Rutlage (tr. Sinclair)
- A Christmas Carol (tr. Paxton) (1922/2016)
- The Circus Band (tr. Elkus)
- A Concord Symphony (tr. Patterson) (1920/2010)
- "Country Band" March (tr. Sinclair) (1903/1974)
- Decoration Day (tr. Elkus)
- Fantasia on "Jerusalem the Golden" (1888)
- Finale from "Symphony No. 2" (tr. Elkus) (1907/1974)
- Four Eccentric Songs (tr. Paxton) (1922/2016)
- Fugue in C (arr. Sinclair) (1900/1992)
- Here's to Good Ol' Yale: See: March 6: Here's to Good Ol' Yale
- In the Mornin' (arr. Singleton) (1929)
- Lento Maestoso and Finale from "Symphony No. 2" (tr. Elkus) (1907/1974/2001)
- March 6: Here's to Good Ol' Yale (tr. Elkus) (1897/2003)
- March Intercollegiate (ed. Brion) (1892(?)/1973)
- Memories, Very Pleasant and and Rather Sad (arr. Elkus) (1922/2011?)
- Old Fashioned Hymns (tr. Paxton) (1922/2016)
- Old Home Days (arr. Elkus) (1954)
- Omega Lambda Chi (ed. Brion) (1896/1974)
- Overture and March "1776" (tr. Sinclair) (1904/1910)
- Postlude in F (tr. Singleton) (1890-92/1991)
- Ragtime Dance No. 4 (trans. Sinclair) (?/1990)
- Runaway Horse on Main Street (1908)
- A Son of a Gambolier (arr. Elkus) (1892/1962)
- Symphony No. 2. See: Lento Maestoso and Finale from "Symphony No. 2" and Finale from "Symphony No. 2"
- They are There! (arr. Sinclair)
- The Unanswered Question (1908/1935/1989)
- Variations on "America" (orch. Schuman, tr. Rhoads) (1891/1968)
- Variations on "Jerusalem the Golden" (tr. Brion) (1900/1974)